MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman has won a U.S. Navy Enhanced Tactical Automated Security System contract worth as much as $39 million.
Under the 5-year award contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems-Atlantic, Charleston, S.C., Northrop Grumman will compete for delivery orders with a potential value of more than $39 million for software enhancements, hardware, design, installation and support.
The company said the award is a follow-on to a sole source contract issued to the company in September 2007 for $9 million.
"Northrop Grumman has been the primary developer of the TASS system over the past eight years," said Mike Twyman, vice president of Integrated Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Systems for Northrop Grumman's Information Systems sector. "As a field-proven solution deployed to nearly 100 worldwide locations, we feel confident that this solution will continue to provide our warfighters with wide-area and close-in protection of critical assets, including forward-deployed and domestic bases and airfields, range safety and tactical flight-line protection."
TASS is an open-systems, command-and-control platform for the integration of various sensors for force-protection missions. The system, when combined with the sensors, provide real-time detection and assessment of intrusions into protected areas.
